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12 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
BREAKING: Nearly 500 @Amazon and @Google workers just united to demand BOTH companies stop providing cloud services to the Israeli government and powering Israeli apartheid!

Workers keep their companies running, so this historic demand has serious weight.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
In May, while the Israeli military was bombing Gaza for 11 days straight, Amazon and Google signed a $1 billion contract with the Israeli government, launching Project Nimbus.
But workers don’t want to build tech that will enable the Israeli government to surveil Palestinians, expand illegal settlements, and inflict violence in Gaza. They want their employers to cut their contracts with an apartheid government that violates Palestinian human rights.
Solidarity with these brave and principled employees fighting for a world where technology promotes safety and dignity for all!

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13 Oct
As Israeli bombs dropped on Gaza, @amazon and @Google signed a $1B contract to provide cloud services for the Israeli government.

Alongside employees, 41 organizations are launching a campaign to demand Amazon and Google stop powering apartheid.

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Through Project Nimbus, Amazon and Google are strengthening Israel’s military occupation and apartheid rule over Palestinians. The Israeli government uses cloud services to surveil Palestinians, expand illegal settlements, and inflict violence on Palestinians in Gaza.
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12 Oct
Brava Sally Rooney!

Modan is one of Israel's largest publishing companies and collaborates with the Israeli Ministry of Defense. Cultural production is not separate from the political systems of apartheid and it is therefore a worthy target of boycott.

theguardian.com/books/2021/oct…
This is not a fight about Hebrew as Rooney said herself she'd be willing to be published in Hebrew by a BDS compliant publishing house.

This is about throwing sand in the wheels of Israel's apartheid system which normalizes its abuse of Palestinians through cultural works.
We applaud Salley Rooney's decision and hope to see more public figures in the arts do the same!
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5 Oct
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This is another instance of Palestinians being used as test subjects for oppressive technology that Israeli firms then export around the world.
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4 Oct
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1 Oct
Amidst the Israeli embassy opening in Bahrain and murmurings of Iraqi normalization, remember that Israeli normalization agreements:

1) are not “peace deals" but, much of the time, weapons deals between the US and the normalizing states.

2) do NOT have popular support! 🙅🏿🙅🏾🙅🏽
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